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http://www.businessinsider.com/corkscrew-app-sommelier-2016-11This new smartphone app aims to put a sommelier in your pockethttp://www.businessinsider.com/corkscrew-app-sommelier-2016-11
Sat, 03 Dec 2016 02:54:00 -0500Sam Shead
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/58427a1bdd08953c448b47a2-1913/undefined" alt="Matthew Gertner CEO Corkscrew" data-mce-source="Corkscrew" /></p><p>Picking the perfect wine to go with your meal isn't easy.</p>
<p>Now a London startup has developed an app that aims to help you find the ideal red to combine with a steak or the perfect white to go with your lobster.</p>
<p>The app, known as Corkscrew, draws on two databases &mdash; one for wine and one for food &mdash; before recommending some potential matches.</p>
<p>"We&rsquo;re able to actually generate a percentage compatibility&nbsp;between any arbitrary dish and any arbitrary wine," said founder and CEO Matt Gertner.</p>
<p>Gertner told Business Insider this week that he came up with Corkscrew partly to eliminate the feeling of dread that wine amateurs feel when faced with a restaurant wine list.</p>
<p>"The idea for the app really came from a pain point for me personally because I like good meals and I like good wine but I didn&rsquo;t know very much about them," said Gertner.</p>
<p>The app, which is available to download for free on iOS and Android, can be used in restaurants or at home.</p>
<p>In order to get restaurant wine recommendations, users must first find and select the restaurant that they're in before selecting the food that they intend to eat. That could be a slight issue at present as the Corkscrew app currently only features a few dozen restaurants in London, but it does include the likes of Duck &amp; Waffle and Caravan. The company also plans to start adding menus from restaurants across the city, the UK, and the rest of the world over the coming months.<img src="http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/58427a1bdd08953c448b47a3-1421/img9660.jpg" alt="Corkscrew" data-mce-source="Corkscrew" /></p>
<p>After the user has selected the dish (or dishes) they want to eat, they must then tap a button that reads "Give me the best wine." A couple of seconds later, the app will bring up a number of wines that are available for purchase in the restaurant and tell you how well they go with the food you intend to eat. A number of filters can be applied to narrow down your results based on price, colour, and volume.</p>
<p>The app can also be used at home by describing the dish that you intend to eat. This can be done by tapping on labels such as "fish," "pasta," and "cheese."</p>
<h2>How the app decides which wine to pair with dishes</h2>
<p>In order to help the app decide which wine to pair with which dishes, Corkscrew has hired Matt Day &mdash; who has been working in the wine industry for 20 years &mdash; as its chief wine officer.</p>
<p>He ranks each of the wines on the app based on their acidity, sweetness, alcohol level, fruitiness, and body, before assigning them a particular "flavour." Certain wine&nbsp;flavours are then assigned to&nbsp;certain dishes and given a compatibility ranking, which is stored in the app and shown to users as a percentage.</p>
<p>Corkscrew has been backed by investors with close to &pound;1 million. It currently employs a small team of five people and has been downloaded by a handful of investors and journalists that have been shown the app over the last couple of months.</p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/corkscrew-app-sommelier-2016-11#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> <p>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/sleep-8-hour-cycle-ancestors-myth-2016-11">We sleep much differently than our ancestors — here's why</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/app-order-leftover-food-restaurants-kickstarter-food-for-all-2016-10Over 100 billion pounds of food is wasted each year in the US — this app is trying to fix thathttp://www.businessinsider.com/app-order-leftover-food-restaurants-kickstarter-food-for-all-2016-10
Fri, 25 Nov 2016 10:00:00 -0500Gene Kim
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<p><span id="docs-internal-guid-4a0f8139-fdb2-2f2d-5ffb-a059631366a5">According to the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-how-long-your-food-is-safe-to-eat-after-buying-it-2016-7">USDA</a>, approximately 133 billion pounds of food is wasted in a given year in the United States. Much of that comes from restaurants throwing out food that they didn’t get to sell each day. <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1090391487/food-for-all-help-save-and-eat" target="_blank">Food for All</a> is a new app that lets users purchase those meals at a cheaper price before it gets thrown out.</span></p>
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Fri, 18 Nov 2016 13:18:00 -0500Áine Cain
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<p>I'm not great with money.</p>
<p>It's not like I'm a big spender. I don't really splurge and my payments are timely. But I'm pretty clueless and careless when it comes to personal finance &mdash; especially things like credit card rewards programs.</p>
<p>I recently tried out <a href="https://birchfinance.com/">Birch</a>, a free service based in Gainesville, Florida that's meant to help people make sense of perplexing credit card reward programs.</p>
<p>"I had a really terrible experience finding a good resource when trying to make sense of credit cards and their reward programs. I felt that a lot of the blog and credit card sites were just sets of confusing tables and lacked any sort of personalization," Birch founder Alex Cohen told Business Insider. "I think I&rsquo;m similar to most people in that I get overloaded with credit card offers in my email and see the ads constantly on TV. So a few years ago when I was in the market for a new credit card, I really had no idea where to even begin looking. The tools that were out there to help me find a new card felt really biased and just spammy. I even went as far as putting together Excel spreadsheets to compare my personal spending to the rewards on each card so I could figure out what the true value of those cards were."</p>
<p>So, Cohen set about creating a service that would help people make sense of credit card programs. The first version &mdash; then called Swipe &mdash; went live in 2015.</p>
<p>Today, the service has slightly over 3,000 users and employs a full-time team of five people. Birch has raised a total of $150,000 through angel investors and an accelerator.</p>
<p>After using the app for over four months in the hopes of learning a little more about navigating the confusing, treacherous path to credit card rewards, I realized my favorite part of the app has nothing whatsoever to do with credit cards &mdash; and that I had no idea where my money goes.</p>
<p>But first, here's how Birch works: You enter your bank account information and Birch analyzes your spending habits. Then it recommends different credit cards that&nbsp;will allow you to rack up more points. Birch breaks down your rewards by month. For example, for the past 12 months, I might have earned $<span>1,142.77 </span>in rewards had I been using Chase's Sapphire Reserve, which the app selected as my most advantageous match based on my spending habits.</p>
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<p>The app also includes features that allow users to set spending goals, track spending on a calendar, and receive notifications about missed rewards via Facebook Messenger and text. It categorizes missed rewards and detects and tracks subscriptions.</p>
<p>In case I didn't want to go with Sapphire, the app provided me with two backup options: Chase's Southwest Premier and American Express's Platinum Delta Skymiles. Birch isn't compensated for its recommendations.</p>
<p>My takeaway from watching Birch calculate rewards is that they really add up. As of right now, I'm missing out on $1,142.77 worth of rewards. If I switched to Sapphire, Birch tells me I'd experience a 1211% increase in my yearly credit card rewards.</p>
<p>Since Birch tracks your spending in order to find the cards that best suit you, I quickly realized it was having an impact on the way I manage my money, completely aside from cards and rewards: For the first time ever, I started checking my spending regularly.</p>
<p>The service presents your spending habits in a very simple and visual format, breaking it into broad categories illustrated in a graph. There are a good number of services that do this, like Mint and Personal Capital, but I like Birch's clear layout and graphics.<img style="float:right;" src="http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/582e2012e02ba738018b5044-586/screen shot 2016-11-08 at 11.17.58 am.png" alt="Screen Shot 2016 11 08 at 11.17.58 AM" data-mce-source="&Aacute;ine Cain" /></p>
<p>Once I started looking, I couldn't stop. Using the app, I can quickly scan all the stupid stuff I've bought in a colorful, easy-to-read graph, or a straightforward list of purchases. Two trends that recurred throughout the report were pizza and bagels. Seeing it in a purple percentage gave me the guilt trip I needed to cut back on my random poppyseed bagel runs. I do all my spending on my credit card. Having just graduated from college, I'm not looking to go crazy and start applying for multiple cards.</p>
<p>The app imports historical data from about a year back, so I'm able to check my spending trends over the past month, three months, or twelve months. I even found out that I've been making considerably fewer purchases lately. I may be a bagel addict, but at least I'm somewhat responsible.</p>
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<p>Even though I signed up to learn more about credit card rewards, honestly, I don't think I'll be swapping out my card anytime soon. I'm pretty happy with my current card, a Go Far Rewards&nbsp;Visa from Wells Fargo, which I got thanks to the convenience of an ATM and general presence on my college campus. Maybe this sounds too conservative or stagnant, but I am just starting out and I'm not looking to run into a lot of debt opening multiple cards. I'd rather delay messing around with my finances too much until I'm a bit more established.</p>
<p>Today, I check Birch weekly to review my purchases and make sure I'm on track. I came for the credit cards reward feature, but I'm staying for the easy-to-digest spending reports.</p><p><strong>SEE ALSO:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/tally-is-making-credit-cards-easier-to-manage-2016-6" >A new app aims to fix a $1 trillion problem by making credit cards cheaper and easier to manage</a></strong></p>
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Wed, 09 Nov 2016 14:00:00 -0500Áine Cain
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<p>Nowadays, finding a date is as easy as taking out your phone, downloading an app like <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tinder/id547702041?mt=8">Tinder</a>, and swiping right until you find a good match.</p>
<p>What if you could do the same with jobs and business leads?</p>
<p>That's the idea behind <a href="https://www.myopportunity.com/">Opportunity</a>, a social networking site that uses algorithms to match up professional connections.</p>
<p>"We didn't see really anything like that happening in the professional world," CEO Janis Krums told Business Insider. "The whole goal was to take some work out of this process that a lot of people might get frustrated with."</p>
<p>By plugging in your location, industry, interests, and other information, users can post jobs, seek them out, and network. Opportunity provides you with leads, drawing from your existing LinkedIn connections and its own network of 1.1 million users.</p>
<p>According to Krums, the real difference between Opportunity and other professional networking sites like LinkedIn is its focus on introducing users to new connections, rather than just expanding on existing networks.</p>
<p>This makes it an especially good option for people who either lack large networks or are looking to break into new industries.</p>
<p>On the other side, Krum says that hiring managers at smaller organizations might find it more manageable to seek out new hires on Opportunity than on larger job boards sites, where their posts might get lost in the shuffle.</p>
<p>"You're not matching to businesses, you're connecting with other individuals," Krums says.</p>
<p>Founded in 2014 by Krums and Bill Jula, the app now employs a nine person team based out of Sarasota, Florida and Riga, Latvia. The latest version launched in January. Most users are based in the US, England, India, Australia, and Brazil.</p>
<p>Just recently, Opportunity was awarded $250,000 in pro golfer Greg Norman's Great White Shark Fund's seed round. Krums says that it's major focus is optimizing its free mobile options on <a href="http://t.sidekickopen68.com/e1t/c/5/f18dQhb0S7lC8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9nMJW7t5XZs2z8MDCW4XyGbq1px0w4W5vw6HK56dFk5f2KSS-x02?t=https%3A%2F%2Fitunes.apple.com%2Fus%2Fapp%2Fopportunity-business-opportunities%2Fid1120189533&amp;si=5200819044220928&amp;pi=17fb6d1d-9d5c-498f-96fa-316e3eb7738b">iOS</a> and <a href="http://t.sidekickopen68.com/e1t/c/5/f18dQhb0S7lC8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9nMJW7t5XZs2z8MDCW4XyGbq1px0w4W5vw6HK56dFk5f2KSS-x02?t=https%3A%2F%2Fplay.google.com%2Fstore%2Fapps%2Fdetails%3Fid%3Dcom.opprtunity.opprtunityapp%26hl%3Den&amp;si=5200819044220928&amp;pi=17fb6d1d-9d5c-498f-96fa-316e3eb7738b">Android</a>.</p>
<p>According to Krums, the app seeks to expand networks, rather than just connecting users with people they already know. As a result, it might be a good option for people looking to make new connections within their industry.</p>
<p>"Even if they're stuck in the airport, they could check Opportunity and see who's on," he told Business Insider. "Then maybe they can make a deal or even just network with somebody new."</p><p><strong>SEE ALSO:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/tinder-sociologist-dont-make-this-mistake-in-your-profile-photo-2016-9" >Tinder's sociologist reveals one big mistake people make in their profile photos</a></strong></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/a-tinder-like-app-makes-finding-a-new-job-as-easy-as-swiping-right-2016-11#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> <p>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/dating-app-addiction-tinder-sex-2015-11">Confessions of a dating-app 'addict' who decided to quit cold turkey</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/mcdonalds-mobile-ordering-is-coming-2016-11McDonald’s is finally catching up to other fast food chains in one big way (MCD)http://www.businessinsider.com/mcdonalds-mobile-ordering-is-coming-2016-11
Mon, 07 Nov 2016 09:22:00 -0500Hayley Peterson
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/574ae07191058422008c590e-2400/rtr20gu7.jpg" alt="mcdonalds french fries" data-mce-source="Fred Prouser/Reuters" /></p><p>McDonald's&nbsp;is finally&nbsp;gearing up to launch mobile order-and-pay technology, meaning customers will be able to order and pay for their food from their smartphones, the company told Business Insider.</p>
<p>The technology will start rolling out next year in the US and international lead markets, which include Australia, Canada, France, and the UK, McDonald's spokeswoman Becca Hary said.&nbsp;</p>
<p>By 2018, it will be available at 20,000 to 25,000 restaurants worldwide, she said.</p>
<p>Mobile ordering has been a big boon for the fast-food industry.&nbsp;But McDonalds, the biggest fast-food chain in the world, has curiously lagged its peers in adopting&nbsp;the new technology.</p>
<p>Companies like Starbucks and Chick-fil-A have seen massive success by offering the service.</p>
<p>It benefits both customers and restaurant chains by cutting down on customer wait times and improving order accuracy, among other advantages.</p>
<p>McDonald's CEO Steve Easterbrook talked about mobile ordering in July 2015, saying that in the future <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-get-free-food-at-mcdonalds-2015-8">customers may be able to order ahead with the chain's app</a> and when they arrive to pick up their food, the restaurant will be notified of their arrival via geo-location services tied to their phones.</p>
<p>Then the burger chain starting <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/exclusive-mcdonalds-is-secretly-testing-its-own-order-ahead-and-payments-app-2014-6">testing mobile ordering earlier this year</a> at 22 locations in Columbus, Georgia, but later ended the test, according to Ad Age.</p>
<p>McDonald's has missed out on a big opportunity by lagging its peers&nbsp;on mobile order-and-pay, according to some industry experts.</p>
<p>"This isn&rsquo;t new technology, it&rsquo;s something that should be fairly standard nowadays," says Neil Saunders, CEO of retail consulting firm Conlumino.</p>
<p><img src="http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/5609a8e7bd86ef18008bdafa-2400/112561118.jpg" alt="mcdonalds" data-mce-source="Justin Sullivan/Getty Images" /><span>While McDonald&rsquo;s still hasn&rsquo;t rolled out mobile ordering, it has been adding digital kiosks to its restaurants that perform the same functions as mobile ordering, but cost a lot more. The kiosks &ndash; which are in about 7,000 restaurants globally &mdash; cost about $125,000 per restaurant&nbsp;to install.</span></p>
<p>Like the kiosks, mobile ordering allows customers to skip lines at the register and avoid interacting with restaurant employees or exchanging money.</p>
<p>This is a key advantage for time-strapped people wanting to grab food on the go &mdash; which describes a majority of McDonald's customers, considering some 70% of them order through the drive-thru.</p>
<p>"Many customers dislike the process of selecting what they want, standing in line and ordering, and then waiting for their food," Saunders said. "It is the slow bit of fast food. As we have seen with Starbucks, many would prefer to pick what they want in advance and then come and pick the products up when they are ready."</p>
<p>Starbucks launched its mobile order-and-pay program one year ago. About 25% of Starbucks customers now use the company's app to pay for their orders and 6% &mdash; or 1 in 20 people &mdash; use it to order ahead.</p>
<p>The app remembers customers' orders, making it easier for them to reorder, and it's linked with the company's rewards program &mdash; of which there are now more than 12.3 million active members.</p>
<p>Starbucks now has more customer money stored on its app and reward cards than some banks, the <a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/starbucks-has-more-customer-money-on-cards-than-many-banks-have-in-deposits-2016-06-09">Wall Street Journal reported earlier this year</a>.</p>
<p><img src="http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/56380d32bd86efed5b8bba0b-800/nztgxunr-3500-2200_large.jpg" alt="starbucks mobile order" data-mce-source="Starbucks, via The Motley Fool" data-mce-caption="Starbucks mobile order and pay." data-link="http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/11/02/chipotle-mexican-grill-inc-just-made-a-game-changi.aspx" />Chick-fil-A's mobile order-and-pay app has also seen similar success.</p>
<p>Since its launch in June, more than 8 million people have downloaded the Chick-fil-A One app, which remembers customer orders and tailors rewards to their buying habits, just like the Starbucks app.</p>
<p>For McDonald's, a program like this makes a lot of sense.</p>
<p>Cutting down on customer wait times and improving order accuracy has been a main focus of the company's turnaround over the last year.</p>
<p>And it seems like customers are interested in interacting with McDonald's on their phones. Without mobile order-and-pay McDonald's already has an impressive number of app downloads &mdash; about 14 million, to be exact, according to information that the company shared with Ad Age.</p>
<p>Over the long term, mobile order-and-pay could also help alleviate growing labor costs by cutting back on the number of employees needed at the register.</p>
<p>"This would be helpful to the company at a time when wage pressures are becoming a heavier burden on the cost line," Saunders said. "It would also give McDonald&rsquo;s an opportunity to track consumer behavior and buying patterns and stimulate spending with offers and deals."</p>
<p>McDonald's says its planning to&nbsp;accelerate its investment in digital, which includes its kiosks and app, over the next two years.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Providing our customers with choice and convenience is an important part of the restaurant experience at McDonald&rsquo;s," Hary told Business Insider.</p><p><strong>SEE ALSO:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/mcdonalds-ends-create-your-taste-2016-11" >McDonald's just pulled the plug on its biggest menu change in years</a></strong></p>
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Fri, 04 Nov 2016 16:02:50 -0400Hayley Peterson
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/574ae07191058422008c590e-2400/rtr20gu7.jpg" alt="mcdonalds french fries" data-mce-source="Fred Prouser/Reuters" /></p><p>McDonald's&nbsp;is finally&nbsp;gearing up to launch mobile order-and-pay technology, meaning customers will be able to order and pay for their food from their smartphones, the company told Business Insider.</p>
<p>The technology will start rolling out next year in the US and international lead markets, which include Australia, Canada, France, and the UK, McDonald's spokeswoman Becca Hary said.&nbsp;</p>
<p>By 2018, it will be available at 20,000 to 25,000 restaurants worldwide, she said.</p>
<p>Mobile ordering has been a big boon for the fast-food industry.&nbsp;But McDonalds, the biggest fast-food chain in the world, has curiously lagged its peers in adopting&nbsp;the new technology.</p>
<p>Companies like Starbucks and Chick-fil-A have seen massive success by offering the service.</p>
<p>It benefits both customers and restaurant chains by cutting down on customer wait times and improving order accuracy, among other advantages.</p>
<p>McDonald's CEO Steve Easterbrook talked about mobile ordering in July 2015, saying that in the future <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-get-free-food-at-mcdonalds-2015-8">customers may be able to order ahead with the chain's app</a> and when they arrive to pick up their food, the restaurant will be notified of their arrival via geo-location services tied to their phones.</p>
<p>Then the burger chain starting <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/exclusive-mcdonalds-is-secretly-testing-its-own-order-ahead-and-payments-app-2014-6">testing mobile ordering earlier this year</a> at 22 locations in Columbus, Georgia, but later ended the test, according to Ad Age.</p>
<p>McDonald's has missed out on a big opportunity by lagging its peers&nbsp;on mobile order-and-pay, according to some industry experts.</p>
<p>"This isn&rsquo;t new technology, it&rsquo;s something that should be fairly standard nowadays," says Neil Saunders, CEO of retail consulting firm Conlumino.</p>
<p><img src="http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/5609a8e7bd86ef18008bdafa-2400/112561118.jpg" alt="mcdonalds" data-mce-source="Justin Sullivan/Getty Images" /><span>While McDonald&rsquo;s still hasn&rsquo;t rolled out mobile ordering, it has been adding digital kiosks to its restaurants that perform the same functions as mobile ordering, but cost a lot more. The kiosks &ndash; which are in about 7,000 restaurants globally &mdash; cost about $125,000 per restaurant&nbsp;to install.</span></p>
<p>Like the kiosks, mobile ordering allows customers to skip lines at the register and avoid interacting with restaurant employees or exchanging money.</p>
<p>This is a key advantage for time-strapped people wanting to grab food on the go &mdash; which describes a majority of McDonald's customers, considering some 70% of them order through the drive-thru.</p>
<p>"Many customers dislike the process of selecting what they want, standing in line and ordering, and then waiting for their food," Saunders said. "It is the slow bit of fast food. As we have seen with Starbucks, many would prefer to pick what they want in advance and then come and pick the products up when they are ready."</p>
<p>Starbucks launched its mobile order-and-pay program one year ago. About 25% of Starbucks customers now use the company's app to pay for their orders and 6% &mdash; or 1 in 20 people &mdash; use it to order ahead.</p>
<p>The app remembers customers' orders, making it easier for them to reorder, and it's linked with the company's rewards program &mdash; of which there are now more than 12.3 million active members.</p>
<p>Starbucks now has more customer money stored on its app and reward cards than some banks, the <a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/starbucks-has-more-customer-money-on-cards-than-many-banks-have-in-deposits-2016-06-09">Wall Street Journal reported earlier this year</a>.</p>
<p><img src="http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/56380d32bd86efed5b8bba0b-800/nztgxunr-3500-2200_large.jpg" alt="starbucks mobile order" data-mce-source="Starbucks, via The Motley Fool" data-mce-caption="Starbucks mobile order and pay." data-link="http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/11/02/chipotle-mexican-grill-inc-just-made-a-game-changi.aspx" />Chick-fil-A's mobile order-and-pay app has also seen similar success.</p>
<p>Since its launch in June, more than 8 million people have downloaded the Chick-fil-A One app, which remembers customer orders and tailors rewards to their buying habits, just like the Starbucks app.</p>
<p>For McDonald's, a program like this makes a lot of sense.</p>
<p>Cutting down on customer wait times and improving order accuracy has been a main focus of the company's turnaround over the last year.</p>
<p>And it seems like customers are interested in interacting with McDonald's on their phones. Without mobile order-and-pay McDonald's already has an impressive number of app downloads &mdash; about 14 million, to be exact, according to information that the company shared with Ad Age.</p>
<p>Over the long term, mobile order-and-pay could also help alleviate growing labor costs by cutting back on the number of employees needed at the register.</p>
<p>"This would be helpful to the company at a time when wage pressures are becoming a heavier burden on the cost line," Saunders said. "It would also give McDonald&rsquo;s an opportunity to track consumer behavior and buying patterns and stimulate spending with offers and deals."</p>
<p>McDonald's says its planning to&nbsp;accelerate its investment in digital, which includes its kiosks and app, over the next two years.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Providing our customers with choice and convenience is an important part of the restaurant experience at McDonald&rsquo;s," Hary told Business Insider.</p><p><strong>SEE ALSO:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/mcdonalds-ends-create-your-taste-2016-11" >McDonald's just pulled the plug on its biggest menu change in years</a></strong></p>
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Thu, 03 Nov 2016 13:36:00 -0400Melanie Lieberman
<p><img src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/581b6e92dd0895f45a8b4ca6-1158/dealray.png" alt="Dealray" data-mce-source="Dealray" data-link="https://dealray.com" /></p><p>Travelers who plan trips based on getting the very <a href="http://www.travelandleisure.com/flight-deals" target="_blank">best flight deals</a> may already be familiar with <a href="https://dealray.com/" target="_blank">DealRay</a>.</p>
<p>On Wednesday, the desktop-only platform revealed its first mobile app&mdash;and it could be a game-changer.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/best-new-ways-book-flights" target="_blank">members-only site</a> can send real-time alerts and push notifications whenever it detects massive price drops, error fares, or flash sales. DealRay spotlights localized, and often-exclusive deals (no more scouring pages of deals to find one at your airport) discovered with a mix of proprietary algorithms and good old-fashioned research.</p>
<p>At <em>Travel + Leisure,</em> we&rsquo;ve found <a href="http://www.travelandleisure.com/flight-deals/flight-deal-new-york-to-hong-kong" target="_blank">$342 round-trip flights</a> from our New York City office to Hong Kong, and a $264 round-trip flight from Boston to Iceland.</p>
<p>DealRay alerts come with step-by-step instructions for booking the deals. And according to their site, members can expect to save an average of $428 per deal.</p>
<p>The app, currently only available on iOS (Android is on the way), is free but you'll need a membership to get alerts on deals. Travelers can sign up for a one month free trial, after which it&rsquo;s $9.99 per month.</p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/new-travel-app-crazy-low-deals-2016-11#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> <p>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/insectothopter-cia-dragonfly-spy-drone-military-defense-espionage-spies-2016-12">In the 1970s the CIA created a spy drone the size of a dragonfly</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/yelp-office-tour-surprising-perk-2016-10The most surprising perk for the 900 New York-based employees at Yelp costs the $2.4 billion company nothing (YELP)http://www.businessinsider.com/yelp-office-tour-surprising-perk-2016-10
Thu, 03 Nov 2016 10:40:00 -0400Business Insider
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/580fa597362ca44a018b4aec-2000/yelp offices nyc-23.jpg" alt="Yelp Offices NYC 23" data-mce-source="Hollis Johnson" /></p><p></p>
<p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/yelp-office-tour-2016-9">We recently visited Yelp's Manhattan office and saw everything from an indoor swing to "Big Lebowski"-themed employee portraits.</a></p>
<p>However, we were more surprised by what we <em>heard</em> when we walked in than what we saw: loud music playing throughout the office.</p>
<p>"Music is a big part of our culture here," vice president of local sales Paul Reich told Business Insider during our visit.</p>
<p>"We don't know whether we'll be hearing Brazilian or samba or even some heavy metal on any given day."</p>
<p>Sometimes, he said, the battle for the position of office DJ can get pretty competitive. On the day of our tour, we arrived to the sound of some classic 80s tunes.</p>
<p><span>Reich explained that m</span>usic &mdash; along with the numerous other perks the <a href="http://markets.businessinsider.com/stock/YELP-Quote">$2.4 billion</a> <span>San Francisco-based company provides its 900 New York-based employees &mdash; is actually a major motivator during work hours.</span></p>
<p>Most employees in Yelp's Flat Iron neighborhood office work in sales, so upbeat tempos help to keep everyone pumped throughout the day.</p>
<p>"It's a difficult job, being an evangelist. You're calling people often who don't want to talk to you. How do you counter that? With music, with love, with energy, with support," he said.</p>
<p>And it's not just about blasting Spotify over the speakers. Reich told us that workers have formed a capella groups, <br />rock bands, and hip hop squads.</p>
<p>Yelp employees also frequent karaoke bars in Koreatown with their coworkers after hours, Reich said. And the office recently installed its own karaoke machine.</p>
<p>He explained that music is a means of both motivating employees, and encouraging them to socialize with one another.</p>
<p>That being said, employees don't have to contend with so much sound and fury <em>all</em> the time. There a few quiet areas tucked away throughout the space. "We need to provide space that's peaceful and serene," Reich said.</p>
<p>But once quiet time is over, it's straight back to facing the music.</p><p><strong>SEE ALSO:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/best-restaurant-in-the-us-according-to-yelp-2016-3" >This is the best restaurant in the US, according to Yelp</a></strong></p>
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Wed, 02 Nov 2016 15:14:07 -0400Emma Fierberg
<p>Uber just <a href="https://newsroom.uber.com/newriderapp/">redesigned their app</a> from the ground up for the first time since 2012. The updated app offers new features including setting a person as a destination, Yelp reviews, Pandora, local transit information.<br><br><strong>Follow BI Video:&nbsp;</strong><a href="https://twitter.com/BI_Video" target="_blank">On Twitter</a></p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/uber-app-redesign-location-update-experience-pandora-yelp-2016-11#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/yelp-office-tour-surprising-perk-2016-10The most surprising perk for the 900 New York-based employees at Yelp costs the $2.4 billion company nothing (YELP)http://www.businessinsider.com/yelp-office-tour-surprising-perk-2016-10
Sat, 29 Oct 2016 15:57:00 -0400Business Insider
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/580fa597362ca44a018b4aec-2000/yelp offices nyc-23.jpg" alt="Yelp Offices NYC 23" data-mce-source="Hollis Johnson" /></p><p></p>
<p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/yelp-office-tour-2016-9">We recently visited Yelp's Manhattan office and saw everything from an indoor swing to "Big Lebowski"-themed employee portraits.</a></p>
<p>However, we were more surprised by what we <em>heard</em> when we walked in than what we saw: loud music playing throughout the office.</p>
<p>"Music is a big part of our culture here," vice president of local sales Paul Reich told Business Insider during our visit.</p>
<p>"We don't know whether we'll be hearing Brazilian or samba or even some heavy metal on any given day."</p>
<p>Sometimes, he said, the battle for the position of office DJ can get pretty competitive. On the day of our tour, we arrived to the sound of some classic 80s tunes.</p>
<p><span>Reich explained that m</span>usic &mdash; along with the numerous other perks the <a href="http://markets.businessinsider.com/stock/YELP-Quote">$2.4 billion</a> <span>San Francisco-based company provides its 900 New York-based employees &mdash; is actually a major motivator during work hours.</span></p>
<p>Most employees in Yelp's Flat Iron neighborhood office work in sales, so upbeat tempos help to keep everyone pumped throughout the day.</p>
<p>"It's a difficult job, being an evangelist. You're calling people often who don't want to talk to you. How do you counter that? With music, with love, with energy, with support," he said.</p>
<p>And it's not just about blasting Spotify over the speakers. Reich told us that workers have formed a capella groups, <br />rock bands, and hip hop squads.</p>
<p>Yelp employees also frequent karaoke bars in Koreatown with their coworkers after hours, Reich said. And the office recently installed its own karaoke machine.</p>
<p>He explained that music is a means of both motivating employees, and encouraging them to socialize with one another.</p>
<p>That being said, employees don't have to contend with so much sound and fury <em>all</em> the time. There a few quiet areas tucked away throughout the space. "We need to provide space that's peaceful and serene," Reich said.</p>
<p>But once quiet time is over, it's straight back to facing the music.</p><p><strong>SEE ALSO:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/best-restaurant-in-the-us-according-to-yelp-2016-3" >This is the best restaurant in the US, according to Yelp</a></strong></p>
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Thu, 27 Oct 2016 12:14:00 -0400Áine Cain and Jacquelyn Smith
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/580fa597362ca44a018b4aec-2000/yelp offices nyc-23.jpg" alt="Yelp Offices NYC 23" data-mce-source="Hollis Johnson" /></p><p></p>
<p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/yelp-office-tour-2016-9">We recently visited Yelp's Manhattan office and saw everything from an indoor swing to "Big Lebowski"-themed employee portraits.</a></p>
<p>However, we were more surprised by what we <em>heard</em> when we walked in than what we saw: loud music playing throughout the office.</p>
<p>"Music is a big part of our culture here," vice president of local sales Paul Reich told Business Insider during our visit.</p>
<p>"We don't know whether we'll be hearing Brazilian or samba or even some heavy metal on any given day."</p>
<p>Sometimes, he said, the battle for the position of office DJ can get pretty competitive. On the day of our tour, we arrived to the sound of some classic 80s tunes.</p>
<p><span>Reich explained that m</span>usic &mdash; along with the numerous other perks the <a href="http://markets.businessinsider.com/stock/YELP-Quote">$2.4 billion</a> <span>San Francisco-based company provides its 900 New York-based employees &mdash; is actually a major motivator during work hours.</span></p>
<p>Most employees in Yelp's Flat Iron neighborhood office work in sales, so upbeat tempos help to keep everyone pumped throughout the day.</p>
<p>"It's a difficult job, being an evangelist. You're calling people often who don't want to talk to you. How do you counter that? With music, with love, with energy, with support," he said.</p>
<p>And it's not just about blasting Spotify over the speakers. Reich told us that workers have formed a capella groups, <br />rock bands, and hip hop squads.</p>
<p>Yelp employees also frequent karaoke bars in Koreatown with their coworkers after hours, Reich said. And the office recently installed its own karaoke machine.</p>
<p>He explained that music is a means of both motivating employees, and encouraging them to socialize with one another.</p>
<p>That being said, employees don't have to contend with so much sound and fury <em>all</em> the time. There a few quiet areas tucked away throughout the space. "We need to provide space that's peaceful and serene," Reich said.</p>
<p>But once quiet time is over, it's straight back to facing the music.</p><p><strong>SEE ALSO:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/best-restaurant-in-the-us-according-to-yelp-2016-3" >This is the best restaurant in the US, according to Yelp</a></strong></p>
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Thu, 27 Oct 2016 11:36:00 -0400Jacqui Frank and Lara O'Reilly
<p dir="ltr"><span>Twitter’s latest earnings report showed the company beat expectations, but announced it will lay off part of its sales and marketing staff to try and cut costs.</span></p>
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Wed, 26 Oct 2016 12:28:41 -0400Gene Kim
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<p><span id="docs-internal-guid-4a0f8139-fdb2-2f2d-5ffb-a059631366a5">According to the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-how-long-your-food-is-safe-to-eat-after-buying-it-2016-7">USDA</a>, approximately 133 billion pounds of food is wasted in a given year in the United States. Much of that comes from restaurants throwing out food that they didn’t get to sell each day. <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1090391487/food-for-all-help-save-and-eat" target="_blank">Food for All</a> is a new app that lets users purchase those meals at a cheaper price before it gets thrown out.</span></p>
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Sat, 15 Oct 2016 04:13:00 -0400Edith Hancock
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/57daa045dd08956b5e8b4669-1200/pa-11013163.jpg" alt="May Ball" data-mce-source="Chris Radburn/Shutterstock" data-link="https://www.paimages.co.uk/image-details/2.11013163" /></p><p>Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but it's hard to argue with the latest figures from Tinder.</p>
<p>The dating app has published a list of the UK's "hottest" universities based on a ranking of how many times male and female students were given right swipes at Russell Group universities.</p>
<p>Last year, the dating app looked at the relative "hotness" of <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/colleges-with-hottest-men-and-women-according-to-tinder-2015-8" target="_blank">students at U.S. universities</a>, where Ivy League colleges led the tables. But in the UK, older, established schools were overshadowed by red-brick universities like Sheffield and Leeds.</p>
<p>Both Oxford and Cambridge made it into the top 10, but the internationally-renowned institutions were beaten to first place by the University of London, which is spread across 18 separate schools in the capital.</p>
<p>While the same 10 universities made it into both the hottest men and hottest women categories, there were some major differences in order. Male students at the University of Oxford are the second most popular on the dating app, but women at the same institution trail in seventh place.</p>
<p>The news comes as Tinder has launched a new "Boost" feature on the app, which allows users to buy better chances of getting a match.</p>
<p>Users can pay to "boost" their profile, meaning it will become one of the top profiles in your area for 30 minutes.</p>
<p>From Liverpool to London, here are the 10 hottest universities in the UK for men and women.</p>
<h3>Top 10 list: Universities with the most right-swiped men.</h3>
<p>10. University of Liverpool</p>
<p>9. University of Edinburgh</p>
<p>8. University of Nottingham</p>
<p>7. University of Bristol</p>
<p>6. University of&nbsp;Manchester</p>
<p>5. University of Cambridge</p>
<p>4. University of Sheffield</p>
<p>3. University of Leeds</p>
<p>2. University of Oxford</p>
<p>1. University of London&nbsp;</p>
<h3>Top 10 list: Universities with the most right-swiped women</h3>
<p>10. University of Edinburgh</p>
<p>9. University of Nottingham</p>
<p>8. University of Liverpool</p>
<p>7. University of Oxford</p>
<p>6. University of Manchester</p>
<p>5. University of Sheffield</p>
<p>4. University of Bristol</p>
<p>3. University of Cambridge</p>
<p>2. University of Leeds</p>
<p>1. University of London</p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/the-uks-hottest-universities-according-to-tinder-2016-10#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> <p>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/things-men-should-never-use-online-dating-profiles-bumble-whitney-wolfe-2016-9">Dating app founder: Men need to stop putting these 4 things in their profiles</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/i-had-dinner-at-a-strangers-flat-using-social-dining-app-vizeat-heres-the-verdict-2016-1080,000 people worldwide are using an app that lets them eat at a stranger's househttp://www.businessinsider.com/i-had-dinner-at-a-strangers-flat-using-social-dining-app-vizeat-heres-the-verdict-2016-10
Fri, 07 Oct 2016 05:54:34 -0400Alison Millington
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/57f7710fdd089581358b4cdc-1200/dsc06187.jpg" alt="VizEat" data-mce-source="Alison Millington" /></p><p>While <a href="https://www.airbnb.co.uk/?af=43720035&amp;c=A_TC%3Dp9krqmeycz%26G_MT%3De%26G_CR%3D91890652956%26G_N%3Dg%26G_K%3Dairbnb.%26G_P%3D%26G_D%3Dc&amp;exp=r1&amp;gclid=CM-d_ZjDxs8CFccV0wodmzoOAg&amp;dclid=CNLugpnDxs8CFRGF7QodGVcHLg" target="_blank">Airbnb</a> may be the most well-known &ldquo;social sharing&rdquo; platform, encouraging travellers to book rooms in stranger&rsquo;s homes or entire properties owned by local hosts instead of hotels, <a href="https://www.vizeat.com/" target="_blank">global app VizEat</a> is determined to do the same for dining.</p>
<p>Calling itself the &ldquo;Airbnb of food,&rdquo; the platform, which was founded in July 2014 and now exists in 110 countries, <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/what-its-like-to-use-vizeat-2016-5?r=US&amp;IR=T/#our-host-was-danushka-lysek-a-private-chef-who-has-cooked-on-shows-like-food-networks-chopped-cutthroat-kitchen-and-food-network-star-she-was-also-a-live-in-chef-on-the-vh1-series-supergroup-and-has-cooked-for-celebrities-like-ted-nugent-and-scott-ian-of-the-metal-band-anthrax-1" target="_blank">enables its 80,000 users to &ldquo;eat like a local&rdquo;</a>&nbsp;by booking meals, cooking classes, or food tours hosted by 20,000 approved VizEat hosts all over the world.&nbsp;</p>
<p>While it has competitors in <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/what-its-like-to-use-a-meal-sharing-app-2015-5?op=1/#arrived-at-michelles-building-a-few-minutes-before-700-pm-in-the-lobby-i-ran-into-another-guest-heading-up-to-michelles-apartment-i-learned-his-name-was-karlos-and-that-he-was-from-croatia-4" target="_blank">Feastly</a>, which so far only exists in the US, and <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/eatwith-app-lets-you-eat-cheap-with-strangers-2015-10/#our-main-course-was-a-twist-on-the-french-duck--lorange-served-with-a-beurre-blanc-sauce-pureed-spinach-and-a-sweet-citrus-balsamic-glaze-we-all-agreed-simons-sauce-was-the-best-part-17" target="_blank">EatWith</a>, a nearly identical app and website that so far exists in 50 countries, VizEat appears to&nbsp;be getting the most international attention.</p>
<p>In September, the startup raised&nbsp;<span>&euro;3.8 million (&pound;3.4 million) in a funding round as part of its effort to bring the service to even more countries, including the UK and Germany.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p>In order to try out an authentic food experience firsthand, I headed to London Fields where VizEat host Fenny cooked an Indonesian meal for myself and a few members of the VizEat team inside her flat.</p>
<p>I documented my experience below.</p><h3>After signing up on the site (a quick and easy process that simply involves uploading a photo and entering some basic info), the VizEat website (or app) allows you to search for experiences by location.</h3>
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<br/><br/><h3>You can also filter by date, number of guests, and how much you're willing to spend.</h3>
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<br/><br/><h3>This "Introduction to Indonesian Food" was one of the cheapest at £7 per guest (the other meal and cooking class options ranged from £9 to £53), and promised a delicious-sounding changing menu.</h3>
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<p><p>It's free for hosts to make a listing on VizEat, and they're be paid the entire fee (which they decide on themselves) the day after the event takes place.&nbsp;<span>VizEat takes a 15% commission on top of the set rate, but it's the guest who pays this amount.</span></p></p>
<br/><br/><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/i-had-dinner-at-a-strangers-flat-using-social-dining-app-vizeat-heres-the-verdict-2016-10#/#still-when-i-arrived-at-the-london-fields-flat-for-the-meal-on-the-date-i-had-booked-in-for-i-was-slightly-apprehensive-despite-the-fact-that-both-hosts-and-guests-are-vetted-in-a-similar-way-to-airbnb--a-community-team-contacts-them-to-help-them-fill-in-their-profile-upload-photographs-submit-their-bank-details-and-provide-valid-id-to-the-website-4">See the rest of the story at Business Insider</a> http://www.businessinsider.com/sherpaa-online-medical-practice-2016-10An app wants to give you constant access to your doctor for $40 a monthhttp://www.businessinsider.com/sherpaa-online-medical-practice-2016-10
Thu, 06 Oct 2016 14:07:00 -0400Shayla Love
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/563b92669dd7cc03308bc556-2400/486084211.jpg" alt="iphone texting girl phone" data-mce-source="John Moore/Getty Images" /></p><p>A digital medicine startup that replaces doctor visits with text messages and emails is counting on the annoyances of traditional medicine &mdash; plus those pesky copays &mdash; to drive more people to alternatives.</p>
<p>The startup, Sherpaa, aims to fill the coverage gaps that many cheaper insurance plans leave.</p>
<p>It&rsquo;s offered employer-based plans for several years and last month began selling membership directly to individuals. Users pay $40 a month to get constant access to their doctor group via <a href="https://www.statnews.com/2016/01/05/telemedicine-health-apps-2016/" target="_blank">app</a>, email, or text. The team of five to six physicians can prescribe drugs, order lab tests, and refer patients to specialists.</p>
<p>The model is a hybrid between two reigning <a href="https://www.statnews.com/2016/05/12/telemedicine-emergency-care/" target="_blank">telemedicine</a> models. There are those like Teladoc, American Well, and Doctor on Demand, which provide one-off video or phone chats but often without much continuity in who you see. And there are brick-and-mortar doctors&rsquo; offices that offer their local patients <a href="https://www.statnews.com/2016/03/22/telemedicine-reimbursement/" target="_blank">virtual visits</a>.</p>
<p>Sherpaa aims to be something in the middle &mdash; a small group of doctors you return to, digitally, as needed. Its founder, Dr. Jay Parkinson, calls it &ldquo;primary care 2.0.&rdquo;</p>
<p>But telemedicine is still new, laws governing it are evolving, and few large-scale studies have been carried out to show whether it benefits patients&rsquo; health or their wallets.</p>
<p>One study that raised some concern found that doctors who see patients online are <a href="http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleID=1392490" target="_blank">more likely</a> to prescribe antibiotics, though it&rsquo;s unclear why. Another found <a href="http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2511324&amp;resultClick=3" target="_blank">significant variation</a> in the quality of care provided at eight commercial sites offering telemedicine for ailments such as sore throat, back pain, and urinary tract infection.</p>
<h2><strong>Diagnosis by text<br /></strong></h2>
<p>Sherpaa&rsquo;s approach came in handy for Caylee Betts this year when she noticed changes in a benign breast tumor.</p>
<p>Normally, the 28-year-old product designer, who lives in New York would have logged <a href="https://www.statnews.com/2016/04/04/yelp-hospital-ratings/" target="_blank">onto Yelp</a> to read reviews of specialists, trying to find one that took her insurance.&nbsp;</p>
<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m sure it would have taken a long time, and I might not have gone through with it until it became more problematic,&rdquo; she said.</p>
<p>Deciding to try something different, Betts signed up for Sherpaa through her employer. Her Sherpaa doctors made her appointments to get an ultrasound and a biopsy, and then found her a surgeon.</p>
<p>&ldquo;I would consider them to be my primary physician right now,&rdquo; Betts said.</p>
<p>Ateev Mehrotra, an associate professor of health policy at Harvard Medical School, said he&rsquo;s not too sure that&rsquo;s the best way to see it.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Usually, we&rsquo;ve thought about this kind of interaction as really helpful as a supplement to seeing a doctor in person,&rdquo; rather than as a substitute for a primary care doctor, he said.</p>
<p>Sherpaa operates exclusively via messaging. Parkinson thinks that grainy video calls, used by other telemedicine outfits, retain all the hassle of scheduling an in-person visit, but at a worse quality &mdash; he likes photos much more. Unlike other telemedicine companies, Parkinson says Sherpaa can make referrals and order lab tests. The company has 10 full-time doctors on staff.</p>
<h2>Millions in venture funds</h2>
<p>Parkinson has been toying with the concept of primary care since he was a resident at John Hopkins University. It was 2007, and Parkinson was living in Baltimore with many uninsured friends. He was the only doctor they knew, and they would email him with medical questions. &ldquo;It happened so frequently that I thought: this has to be some sort of business,&rdquo; he said.</p>
<p>His first practice when he moved to Brooklyn later that year was also untraditional. It was a website with his biography, cell phone number, and a Google calendar. Patients could book&nbsp;an appointment online and Parkinson would make a house call for $100. He would then follow up over email.</p>
<p>In 2007, the iPhone had just come out and Google calendar was a new feature; his digital-forward method&nbsp;got a lot of attention. In the first month, his site got 7.5 million views from curious patients and other doctors.</p>
<p>Several health care-related startups later, Parkinson returned to his idea that primary care could be more accessible than it is. One day in 2012, he was telling his friend David Karp, the founder of Tumblr, that there had to be an easier way. Karp&rsquo;s response: &ldquo;Why don&rsquo;t you try it at Tumblr?&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s how Sherpaa got started,&rdquo; Parkinson said. &ldquo;It was essentially an email address that Tumblr employees could use. A doctor would answer them and then treat them, or arrange care for them.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Karp is an investor in Sherpaa, which has also <a href="http://www.mobihealthnews.com/43263/sherpaa-raises-2-25m-more-maintains-that-video-visits-with-doctors-are-overrated" target="_blank">raised millions</a> from several venture capital funds, as well as from wealthy individuals.</p>
<p>Sherpaa, which is based in New York, now serves around 150 companies. Parkinson declined to say how many individuals have signed up.</p>
<p>Mehrotra, the Harvard Medical School professor, said&nbsp; Sherpaa has the flavor of &ldquo;<a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2016/04/19/primarycare/KWhFenipdotfHFN0ZZZhrN/story.html" target="_blank">concierge medicine</a>,&rdquo; when doctors leave traditional practice (and health insurance) and take on a smaller number of patients for a flat fee, while offering more access by phone or email.</p>
<p>Those services are normally fairly high-dollar. Sherpaa, while not cheap, is more affordable and may be attractive for people with <a href="http://www.nejmcareercenter.org/minisites/rpt/8-ways-that-the-aca-is-affecting-doctors-incomes/" target="_blank">high deductibles and copays</a>.</p>
<p>Still, at $480 a year, Mehrotra says that Sherpaa doesn&rsquo;t make sense for all people.</p>
<p>&ldquo;I think the majority of people who don&rsquo;t have an urgent medical issue that arises during the year are&nbsp;not going to have a cost benefit,&rdquo; he said. But he said it &ldquo;could be helpful&rdquo; for patients with a new medical problem or a need to navigate through many specialists.</p>
<p>Mehrotra has&nbsp;<a href="http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/tmj.2012.0221" target="_blank">studied e-visit systems</a>&nbsp;that doctors use through their online portal systems. He found doctors&rsquo; history-taking to be more thorough at virtual visits than at in-person visits, perhaps because people could fill them out in advance and refer back to their own medical records.</p>
<p>Patients were also happier with e-visits because they cut down on travel time and were more convenient.</p>
<p>But they did find <a href="http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleID=1392490" target="_blank">a&nbsp;downside</a>: Doctors were more likely to prescribe antibiotics online compared to in person.</p><p><strong>SEE ALSO:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/theranos-pivot-to-building-a-blood-testing-device-2016-10" >Theranos just made a major pivot to save itself</a></strong></p>
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Tue, 04 Oct 2016 11:21:00 -0400Alison Millington
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/57f3c90add08954e358b4718-1067/chris_jamie_app.jpg" alt="Too Good To Go" data-mce-source="Too Good To Go" data-mce-caption="Chris and Jamie founded Too Good To Go."></p><p>The opening of the UK's first Food Waste Supermarket in September and the recent London launch of Too Good To Go, an app which sells cheap restaurant food that otherwise would have been thrown away, have put the issue of food waste on the media radar.</p>
<p>And for good reason.</p>
<p>“If food waste were a country, it would be the third largest emitter of green houses gases after the US and China,” Too Good To Go co-founder Chris Wilson told Business Insider.</p>
<p>He added that 600,000 tonnes of edible food is wasted by UK restaurants each year, which he called “incomprehensible.”</p>
<p>“It’s a mammoth problem which until now the London media hadn’t touched upon,” he said.</p>
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<p>Introducing <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/food-waste-app-too-good-to-go-3-2016-8" target="_blank">Too Good To Go</a>, the app <a href="http://toogoodtogo.co.uk/" target="_blank">and website</a> of the moment which uses a geo-targeted map to show users the restaurants closest to them with leftover food available for collection at a special time, all for under £3.80.</p>
<p>Some of the most popular spots in London include Sushilicious, which offers a box of leftover sushi for £2.80 compared to its regular price of £8, juices and smoothies from Roots Juicery for £2.75 and the popular Vietnamese baguette sandwiches from Banh Mi Bay for £3.50 instead of £7.</p>
<p>“The restaurant anticipates how much food they’ll have left, then makes it avaiable to buy through the app,” Wilson says. “Users can select the food they want, pay through the app then are given a mobile receipt which they show at the restaurant to get their food.”</p>
<p>The box full of pizza shown below, for example, cost £3.50 from Pixxa in Whitechapel.</p>
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<p>Wilson was first involved with Too Good To Go in Copenhagen, where the idea began, then decided to launch the app in the UK with friend Jamie Crummie, starting with Brighton and Leeds in June of this year. The app has since launched in Manchester, Birmingham and London.</p>
<p>Wilson said the duo were partly inspired by the work being done by <a href="http://therealjunkfoodproject.org/" target="_blank">The Real Junk Food Project</a>, the organisation that runs “pay as you feel” cafes around the world using food from the likes of markets and food banks destined for the bin and just last week opened the <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/uks-first-food-waste-supermarket-opens-in-leeds-2016-9" target="_blank">UK’s first Food Waste Supermarket</a>.</p>
<p>“They started in Leeds as well and they’ve done some incredible stuff,” he said. “It’s really important that social entrepreneurs are getting involved in trying to bring food waste to the forefront."</p>
<p><img src="http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/57f3c90add08954e358b471a-1200/food%20(1%20of%201).jpg" alt="Too Good To Go" data-mce-source="Too Good To Go" data-mce-caption="Sushi is one of the more popular choices on the app, with the likes of Sushilicious, Maki and YO! Sushi on board in London alone."></p>
<p>Wilson and his business partner Jamie Crummie are hoping the app will “highlight food waste and change perceptions around it.”</p>
<p>“We can counter [food waste] by changing our attitudes towards it and hopefully start to be more considerate about the way we’re consuming food,” he said.</p>
<p>"If someone orders from us, we want their immediate thoughts about the experience to be, 'I can’t believe this food was going to go in the bin.’”</p>
<p><img src="http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/57f3c90add08954e358b471b-1200/miro.jpg" alt="Too Good To Go - Miro" data-mce-source="Too Good To Go">With approximately 100 restaurants already on board in London, Wilson says the app is “constantly expanding” and added that the team is in talks with getting popular chains on board; the YO! Sushi chain is already on the app.</p>
<p>Wilson said that for restaurants, getting involved is a “win-win."</p>
<p>“The restaurants no longer have to pay waste disposal, it puts British food to good use and they also get extra exposure and coverage in our app at no cost,” he said.</p>
<p>While the app shows users what type of food the restaurant serves and gives them an idea of what to expect, they also aren’t guaranteed anything specific.</p>
<p>When ordering from China Express, for example, they might recieve a box of assorted Chinese food like the one below.</p>
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<p>“We don’t want to put an obligation on restaurants to have to list something,” he said. “It should be as easy as possible.”</p>
<p>He added that keeping it simple seems to be making users happy.</p>
<p>“We’re surrounded by choices, and with another company you can log into a website and have a million options in front of you," he said.</p>
<p>“It’s a liberating experience to know roughly what it’s going to be but be in for a bit of a surprise."</p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/too-good-to-go-sells-restaurant-food-destined-for-the-bin-2016-10#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> <p>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-cook-scrambled-eggs-anthony-bourdain-2016-11">The best way to cook scrambled eggs — according to Anthony Bourdain</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/yelp-office-tour-2016-9A look inside the New York office of Yelp, a $3 billion company that offers its 4,000 employees around the world some of the most incredible perkshttp://www.businessinsider.com/yelp-office-tour-2016-9
Wed, 28 Sep 2016 09:23:00 -0400Business Insider
<p><img src="http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/57b4a96bdb5ce99d168b737f-2250/yelp offices nyc-24.jpg" alt="Yelp Offices NYC 24" data-mce-source="Hollis Johnson" /></p><p>When you think of an office, foosball tables, karaoke machines, beer kegs, and free snacks probably don't come to mind ... that is, unless you work at Yelp.</p>
<p>That's right &mdash; those are just a few of the enviable perks Yelp offers its 900 New York-based employees.</p>
<p>Founded in 2004 and headquartered in San Francisco, the <a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/quote/YELP?p=YELP">$3 billion company</a> that allows consumers to locate and review businesses on its mobile app and website now has seven offices around the US and Europe, including one in the heart of Manhattan that Business Insider recently visited.</p>
<p>We went inside the Madison Avenue office to get a clearer picture of what the Yelp culture is really like. Here's what we saw and learned:</p><p><strong>SEE ALSO:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/best-restaurant-in-the-us-according-to-yelp-2016-3" >This is the best restaurant in the US, according to Yelp</a></strong></p>
<h3>Upon arriving at Yelp's New York office on a Wednesday afternoon in August, we were greeted by Paul Reich, vice president of local sales, who would be our tour guide. Our first stop: the Yelp Café.</h3>
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<br/><br/><h3>Reich said this is where Yelp's New York employees — most of whom work in sales — can enjoy a caffeine break Monday through Friday, from 7:30 a.m. until 3:00 p.m.</h3>
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<br/><br/><h3>The entire time we were there, loud, upbeat music was playing throughout the office. Reich told us that the playlists tend to be pretty eclectic: "We don't know whether we'll be hearing Brazilian or samba or even some heavy metal." When we arrived at the office, "Rock Lobster" by the B-52s was playing.</h3>
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Tue, 27 Sep 2016 17:39:53 -0400Hillary Grigonis
<p><span><img style="float:right;" src="http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/522f776b6bb3f7804e43acb2-598/screen shot 2013-09-10 at 2.45.03 pm.jpg" alt="iphone 5s camera" data-mce-source="Apple" />Forget the best of both worlds, a new iOS app is mixing the best of digital photography with the worst of film &mdash; the cost.</span></p>
<p><span>Using </span><a href="https://fotr.co/" target="_blank">Fotr</a><span>, smartphone photographers have to purchase &lsquo;rolls&rsquo; of film &mdash; and every photo they snap is printed, blurry, underexposed, and all.</span></p>
<p><span><span>While digital photography is more convenient, when there is no cost to reshooting an image, photographers put less thought into the shot, </span><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/22/fotr-forces-you-to-print-every-iphone-photo-you-take/" target="_blank">says Fotr founder Ondrej Loudil</a><span>. By adapting some of those analog elements, Fotr is a tool that encourages users to put more into every frame.</span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span>While the cost may deter a few and encourage some, Fotr is also designed as a way to prevent snapshots from being swallowed into thousands of other photos that are never actually shared or looked at, much less printed.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span>The app forgoes the traditional editing filters and instead sells rolls that mimic traditional film looks, including both color Fuji Velia and Fuji Superia as well as the black and white Kodak Tri-X. Buy a film look, and you are locked into that roll for the next 24 to 36 shots. Essentially, you are choosing the filter before you shoot and there is no swapping or experimenting on individual photos until the roll is finished.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p>The film starts at $17 for 24 black and white prints in a 4&times;6-inch size, or, for the daring, $36 for 36 5x7s. Once the roll is shot, Fotr will deliver the prints within 10&nbsp;days.</p>
<p>Apps to print photos certainly are not a new concept, but Fotor is a bit different, mimicking the process of shooting an entire roll &mdash; and paying for every frame, even the bad ones. Whether the idea will catch on or not is anyone&rsquo;s guess &mdash; after all, photographers that do not mind paying for rolls may just use actual film.</p><p><strong>SEE ALSO:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/applovin-acquired-orient-hon-hai-2016-9" >This profitable startup has 115 employees and never took VC money — and it just sold for $1.4 billion</a></strong></p>
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Tue, 27 Sep 2016 09:37:22 -0400Gene Kim
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